This afternoon, the volleyball court was converted into a larger-than-life Battleship game board. Large tarps were hung across the volleyball net to obstruct the view of the opposing team’s battlefield, each member of the opposing team chose his/her position and laid down on their battlefield, and the shooting team launched water balloons across the net in hopes of hitting…
After being absent from MSC Sr. Week’s schedule for several years, tug of war returned to the schedule today to rave reviews. During each afternoon rotation, two teams had three tugging matches, and surprisingly, in every rotation, the winning team dominated all three matches. Today’s five winning teams will compete in the Tug of War Finals Tournament tomorrow morning, so check back…
During the morning, campers rotated between Bible class, crafts, and disc golf. The 6-hole disc golf course spanned across both the upper and lower sports fields and gave the campers a serious workout. Each team competed in its three age groups. The event was scored based on the number of strokes and the total time to complete the course….
Videographer Kevin Colvin continued our daily theme of “God Fits My Tolerance” as he taught each group of campers this morning. He began by asking: What is tolerance? Tolerate (verb) is to accept the feelings, behavior, or beliefs of someone. Tolerance (noun) is the willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own; sympathy or…
This morning kitchen staff member Andy Harrison led our thoughts around the flagpole and introduced us to today’s theme: God Fits My Tolerance. To tolerate is to endure; to bear one another. God’s definition of tolerance is not always the same as society’s definition of tolerance. A standard is a bar to compare ourselves to, and God’s standard is…
Before retiring for the evening, we’d like to reflect on Day 2 of MSC Sr. Week. Although we got some rain overnight last night, as the day progressed, we heard more news from the Indianapolis area of severe storms, wind damage, and power outages, but we were very fortunate at Shakamak to have missed the storms. We had a…
For our Tuesday evening worship service, Neil Tremblett, who works with the congregation at Greenwood, came and spoke to us about how our relationship with God matters because time is short (I Corinthians 7:29-31, 26). It is a solemn thought of how short time really is (I Corinthians 7:29). The brevity of life is emphasized in Psalm 90:10 where we…
